Parenting

...to send hats and gloves, they have bigger problems.

I actually have a great relationship with G's teacher, who is wonderful. I emailed her last night about missing her note about Poem-in-your-Pocket day. She actually took the time to respond to me on a Saturday. She was very encouraging and pointed out all the ways I'm involved and communicating - and I'm certainly not the first parent who ever missed a note.

She can't control the fact that the school has her stuffing our folder with flyers from ever youth program in our area, and that after-school is sending home all their notes too. I wish she would bullet out time senstive info, though.

It's just all the paper from school, on top of all the junk mail, on top of working 40 - 60 hours a week and keeping up with all the other things that need to be kept up with - the paper just represents total unmanagable chaos to me. It makes me want to jump out the window.